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E. W. HAYDEN Lamp-Burner.

N. 225Q054. Patenfed Mar. 2, 1880.

UNITED STATES IPATENT FFCE.

-HIRAM W. HAYDEN, OF WATERBURY, OONNECTIOUT, ASSIGNOR TO HOLMES, BOOTH & HAYDENS, OF SAME PLACE.

LAMP-BURNER.

SPECIFICATION formng part of Letters Patent No. 225,054, dated March 2, 1880. Application filed December 22, 1879.

T all whom m't may concern:

Be t known that I, HIRAM W. HAYDEN, of Waterbury, in the county of New Haven and State of Connecticut, hat*e invented au Imprwement in Lamp-Burners, of Whieh the following is a specification.

My lamp-burner is made with referenceto supplying a large volume of air to a large flame without the risk of smoking in consequence of exteri1al currents of air.

I make use 0'a large Circular air-distributer, atthe edge of which is a rim, forming the chimney-holder, and within the chimney-holderis a defleetor, the base of which is surrounded by a downward rim, to raise the base above the holes of the large air distributer.

The defiectoris of a dome s hape,with thesides flattened in the direction of the flame-slot, and the lower part of the don1e is spread as a comzo pound curve, to freely admit the air, but check the upward rush of the Same toward the flame. In the middle of the air-distributer is a wiek tube guide, surrounding the wiek-tube and resting upon the ratchet-cap, so that the air- 2 5 distributer, defleetor, and chimney can be remox*ed from the wiek-tube.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a plan of the burner. Fig. 2 is a vertical sectiou of the same atthe line 93 x. Fig. 3 is a section of 0 the wiek-tube and ratchet-cap, and Fig. 4; is a detached section of the deflector at right an gles to Fig. 2.

The screw-base a, wiek-tube b, wickraiser 0, and ratchet-cap cl are of ordinary construc- 3 5 tien.

The wiek-tube guide 6 is of a size to set over the wiek-tube. It has a slot at the upper end that is wider than the wiek-tube, and the lower part is circular and notched, so 0 as to set over the ratchet-cap and be held in positiou by lugs entering the notches. This wiek-tube guide has been used in burners of other kinds.

The air-disfributer f is nearly flat, being 5 slightly the highest in the middle, where it is united to the Wicktube guide.

Around the edge of. the air-distributer there is a vertical flange, or1ing a chmney-holding ring, h, Wth lips 2 and serew 3, for holding the chimney.

The defleetor has a base, 1, and dome i. Around the edge of the base there is. a downward flange or rim, 3, resting upon the airdistributer, and raising the base of the deflector sufficiently above the airdistributer to allow the air that passes "ertically through the airdistributer to turn horizontally, 01 n.early s0, as it travels toward the center of the burner. The dome portion 5 of the deflector does not extend down to the base Z; but there is a swell ii the form of a compound curve at 0, so that the currents of air, as they pass upward, are, by the top portion of the compound curve, (lirected inward, as indicated by the arrows.

The dome portio1i of the defiector has the flame-slot at 4, and the deflector is not a regular don1e, but its sides are fiattened, as at 5 5, in the directiou of the flame-slot, the objeet being to lessen the space' between the sides of the wiek-tube and thedome, and cause the air to pass up to the flamewith as mueh uniformity as possible, the large volume that enters the numerous fine holes in the air-dis tributer being thus directed to the flame with an equal action, so as to spread the flame and render the combuston perfect, and preventthe flame from smokingin conSequence of sudden currents of air reaching the same.

It ispreferable to use a wide wiek, and to employ a curved wicktube, where the same passes through the screw of the base.

I claim as my invention- The combination, in a lamp-burner, of a nearly-flat air-distributer, a chimney-holder around the same, a deflector formed of a dome 8 5 withthe sides flattened in the direction of the flame-slot, au enlarged lower portion of the dome, and a base to the dome, having a rim to rest upon the air-distributer and raise the deflector, substantially as speoified.

Signed. by me this 15th day of December,

H. W. HAYDEN. Witnesses: GEO. E. TERRY, R. R. WAJ)E. 

